This “kiss and capture” mechanism offers a fresh perspective on planetary formation, particularly about Pluto and its largest ...

The love story between Pluto and Charon may have started with a kiss. A new study suggests the dwarf planet and its scarcely smaller moon likely came together in a collision that saw them conjoined ...

Pluto and Charon formed from a “kiss and capture” collision, a new study from the University of Arizona reveals, rewriting theories of planetary formation. Unlike catastrophic impacts ...